On Fri, 28 Jan, 2005 at 05:09PM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus: > Next up... a plugin that plays your instrument for you. Why deal > with the tedious hassle of having to tune your instrument or actually > learn how to play it? Can't sing... not a problem! I can see Micro$oft > coming out with something like that ;-) > > > Sorry, but this goes against the grain for me. If I'm going to suck > live I'd damn well better suck digitally so I'll know better than to > play live ;-)
I think you're suffering more from lack of imagination than musical ability. How would you "tune" plain speech? i did this with the OB-Tune and the effect was impressive. Or the sound of a formula one car, removing the doppler efefct to create a very interesting bass? I can't sing for toffee, and not because I'm out of tune. My voice sounds crap even when I hit the right notes. I don't really intend to use this for singing, but there are plenry of other uses, especially if you deal with samples. > Jan > > > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 08:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Back in the days before I converted my windows partition to ext3, I > > used Cubase with a number of VST instruments and effects. > > > > I miss a number of these, but there is usually something equivalent or > > something that will one day be equivalent in the Linux world. > > > > One thing I haven't been able to replace so far is the Oberheim > > OB-Tune plug-in. This was an amazingly useful plug-in that would take > > an audio input and make sure it stayed in tune. It worked on guitars, > > vocals, synths, whatever. > > > > There were a number of ways to use it. You could define a set of > > notes that were allowed, and audio would be made to be in tune with > > the closest note (useful for phrases) or you could specify a single > > note. This was all parameterised, so you could write changes to these > > throughout a track. > > > > Is there anything like this out there at the moment for Linux? > > > > If there isn't, does anyone have any idea how it works? I might > > consider implementing something similar, but I'm not sure where to > > begin. > > > > Here's what I'm thinking: > > > > Operate in smallish chunks. Find the most intense frequency (FFT or > > such) and decide how far that is from the desired frequency. Scale > > accordingly, preferably with as little distortion as possible, so pack > > and crossfade sections. > > > > If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. > > > > I'd expect to make this a plug-in rather than a standalone app, but > > I've never touched LADSPA before - is it possible to send events to > > change parameters? > > > > This might be more than I can chew, but I intend to bite anyway. > > > > James > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
